Rest In the River
Shinzen Young, a Vipassana teacher I studied with online, describes this as “learning to live as the wave, instead of the particle.”
Elena Nezhinsky • Buddha on a Bull: A Practical Approach to Enlightenment (Complete Humanity Series Book 1)
Resting
What’s the point of doing nothing? 3:57
Thich Nhat Hanh
The art of being rather than doing, according to Thich Nhat Hanh.
Many of us are over-scheduled. Even the lives of our children are over-scheduled. When we can allow ourselves to rest and relax, healing becomes possible. There is no healing without relaxation. In the Plu
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We need to let it go, let our life flow through our hands like a river and not try to grab some piece of it and hold on to it. Just to be present with it and find out how to express our vow in this moment, in this circumstance, right where we are right now, instead of trying to figure out how to make it the way we want so that it’ll be just what we
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